Our “Five in a Row” book this week was “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” a story about the Underground Railroad. I was somewhat hesitant to discuss slavery with a 5-year-old. But discuss it we did. I tried to emphasize the kindness and humanity of those who helped rather than talking all that much about what the slaves were escaping.
We ended up not doing many of the FIAR-suggested activities this week. Here’s what we did do:
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Quite a number of months ago, Rockford and I made a pledge to go on a weekly date. And I was writing about the dates, and they were fun, and then they stopped. It was supposed to be a 52-date project, but we only made it to date No. 9 before things interfered. We went a few weeks without having an official date, and then we forgot about it altogether.
But! We’re trying to start again. And thus I present to you:
10/52
The friend with whom you’ve set up a date-night babysitting exchange Trivia night.
A friend with whom Rockford and I went to high school lives in our city, and he is very hip and active in the Fun Things to Do scene. He goes to a trivia night downtown pretty regularly, and the last time he posted something about it on Facebook I asked him about it. And last night, Rockford and I finally went.
Trivia night was held upstairs in a rather seedy-looking bar, and I only knew two of our six team members. But it was so much fun! The categories ranged from video game consoles to cartoon sidekicks to beer to movies, and I actually managed to come up with a few answers. Here are two of the questions I was able to answer:
Trivia night was loud and quite a bit more raucous than our typical Monday night, but it was surprisingly relaxing to spend a few hours answering silly questions and hanging out with friends. And did I mention how much fun it was? We’ll definitely go back.
Oh, and also? We won! Go team!
I have kind of a template that I try to follow for my weekly menu planning. My in-laws come over for dinner on Sundays, so that’s designated “big meal” day — even though I rarely actually make a big, boisterous meal like the Sunday dinners the people in the movies have. The plan also includes meat on Mondays, kids’ choice on Tuesdays (the kids take turn picking), sandwiches on Wednesday, vegetarian on Thursday, pizza on Friday and a new recipe on Saturday. The categories are rather open-ended, so you’d think it would be easy to keep to it. Even so, I have a hard time with it. This, in fact, is the first week that I’ve managed to do it in a long time!
